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DRONE RECORDS ҉ NEWSFLASH ҉ APRIL 2017 ҉ Dear Droners and Psychonauts, here is the NEWSFLASH for April 2017 ! In this update you find great new releases by several artists that were published years ago in our 7" vinyl series : JOE COLLEY (aka CRAWL UNIT), SEETYCA, ALIO DIE, BRUME, FRANCISCO LOPEZ , AIDAN BAKER, MURMER, TZESNE, - we are very happy to see & hear that these 'droners' continue their mission! + AS USUAL SOME OF OUR PERSONAL HIGHLIGHTS and RECOMMENDATIONS, checking them out is strongly recommended: (BarakaH's top seven) COLUMN ONE - Whip cracking & Death defying (a Ceremony) LP (90%WASSER): a thougtful, psychologic concept album where the philosphical implications are more important than the "music" itself.. this LP will definitely confuse you! JIM HAYNES - Throttle & Calibration MC (Helen Scarsdale Records): processed field recordings, the sound of slowly decaying objects.. JEHANNE THIBAULT - Eskifjördur CD (Kaon): dynamic, mesmerizing compositions made out of environmental recordings from Iceland, merging natural and man-made sources.. OLIVIA BLOCK - Dissolution LP (Glistening Examples): incredible collages and drones made from various vocal/voice sources and instruments.. CINDYTALK - The Labyrinth of the straight Line CD (Editions Mego) the industrial return, an overwhelming album about ghosts.. FRANCSCO LOPEZ - Anima Ardens CD (Sub Rosa): epic soundtrack to a dance choreography of THIERRY SMITS, in order reach a trance-like state and liberated mind.. AUME - Agere Urendum Mentis Epode LP (Mobilization Records): the project of SCOT JENERIK and ALEPH OMEGA (CHROME) with their debut album, immersive hypno/electro/ethno dark ambience at its best ! + for sure, there's much more to find, we recommend to read our (often) self-written descriptions ! =>=>=>=>=>=> Pre-orders & reservations are possible. Please note the PRICES with your order! Most of the titles listed are in stock, others are backorderable quickly. All prices are in EURO and do NOT include postage & handling costs! Usually the minimum order amount is 25 Euro. The FULL mailorder-backprogramme is viewable (with search- & orderfunction) on our website www.dronerecords.de . Please send your orders & all communication to: [email protected] BEST DRONES !! Le BaraQue LABEL & CAT- NR. TITLE FORMAT YEAR? SHORT INFO / EDITION / LIM.?/ SPECIALS PRICE NR CHRIS ABRAHAMS (pianist in NECKS) fourth solo album for ROOM40 (the label run by LAWRENCE ABRAHAMS, CHRIS - Fluid to the ENGLISH), less 'droney' than on 'Memory Night' he creates here very playful, evocative tracks that are in 1 LP Room40 RM464 2016 €23,00 Influence steady tonal motion, divided into small sections of notes, operating with Jazz-, Drone- and pure sound elements... (based on piano, organ, electronics and concrete noises); masterful and unique stuff again ! four long tracks (77 min.) including the epic title-track, creating an extremely full and wide aural space Hic Sunt Leones (never sounded STEFANO MUSSO's zither so symphonic), often reaching a choral like beauty and 2 ALIO DIE - Imaginal Symmetry CD 2016 €15,00 HSL085 sublimeness... feat. LINGUA FUNGI and AGLAIA (kantele, organ, electronics, effects), recorded in Oulu (Finland) and Tuscany 2011-2015; lim. 300 five years after Vol.2 this is the third part in the "Xerrox" series (inspired by the process of Raster Noton r-n 159- copying/endless reproduction of data) of self-generated samples, subtitled "Towards Space", going into a 3 ALVA NOTO - Xerrox Vol. 3 do-LP 2015 €21,00 2 surprisingly melodic and dreamy direction, often sounding like a nostalgic synth soundtrack for an old movie... "I have to admit that this emotional output is a surprise even for myself" [CARSTEN NICOLA] AUME is the NEW project of SCOT JENERIK (23Five Org., F-SPACE) and ALEPH OMEGA (CHROME, etc.), their dark and electricity filled "ambient industrial" creations build lots of tension, using pulses, Mobilization Records 4 AUME - Agere Urendum Mentis Epode LP 2016 whirring drones, effected percussion and found sounds (voices, oriental melodies)... there are also more €25,00 MOB-AU1 sublime moments in the two-side long tracks, reminding on older ZOVIET FRANCE... excellent sonics, georgously packed: die cut linen jacket with silver foil embossing, inlay, lim. 555 copies 1 rare Swiss cassette-only release that sees AIDAN BAKER drifting in very smooth sonic waters between 5 BAKER, AIDAN - Objekts MC Dead Vox dvx021 2016 fragmentary ambient waves (at times backwards) and slow-mo post-rock structures (guitar, percussion, €10,00 melodica), lost in reverie.. 11 untitled tracks, about 50 minutes playtime, on the label of LARKIAN... two long new pieces, the title track is dedicated to DAVID ROBERT JONES (aka DAVID BOWIE), the Temporary Residence pieces have been created with synths, tenor saxophone, tape loops and electronics => very rich & multi- 6 BASINSKI, WILLIAM - A Shadow in Time LP 2017 €25,00 Lim. TRR278LP layered, subharmonic ambient drones and waves full of ringing overtunes, surely among his best material! The limited vinyl version contains a special mix, only available on this format two long new pieces, the title track is dedicated to DAVID ROBERT JONES (aka DAVID BOWIE), the pieces have been created with synths, tenor saxophone, tape loops and electronics => very rich & multi- 7 BASINSKI, WILLIAM - A Shadow in Time CD 2062 - 2062.1701 2017 €14,00 layered, subharmonic ambient drones and waves full of ringing overtunes, surely among his best material! The CD version has an extented mix (6 min. longer) of the title track rare cassette-only release on the label of RYAN MARTIN (who also runs DAIS Records), showing the Robert & Leopold 8 BIANCHI, MAURIZIO - Arkeomene MC 2016 rather harmonic/melancholic side of BIANCHI, raw analogue drones combined with melodic drops and €10,00 R&L056 spheres, he calls it "archaic Menelectronics"; very nice.. six long tracks, C-70, lim. 100, full colour cover phantastic new LP by OLIVIA BLOCK which moves from incredible collage music to polymorphing shortwave drone muzak and beyond, also lots of differently mutated vocal & voice material is Glistening Examples 9 BLOCK, OLIVIA - Dissolution LP 2016 present....[sound sources: found and personal microcassette tapes, NIST time recordings, shortwave €27,50 GLEX1603 radio broadcasts, municipial audio feets from several US cities, field recordings from various sites, musicians playing clarinet and flute]; two side-long pieces about the human "webs of significance".. first ever vinyl-edition of their fifth album (2005), when the 'slowest band in the world became even BOHREN & DER CLUB OF GORE - PIAS Recordings 10 do-LP 2017 slower'; the five long pieces are titled after the fingers of a hand, the length of the tracks proportional to €26,00 Geisterfaust PIASD5014LP the length of the fingers.. gatefold-cover first ever vinyl-edition of their third album from 2000, which showed a bigger jazz-influence and wider use BOHREN & DER CLUB OF GORE - PIAS Recordings 11 do-LP 2017 of saxophone... "this is the nightmare 'ambience' of a nowhere jazz-lounge you’ll never leave alive" €26,00 Sunset Mission PIASD5013LP [Aquarius Records] gatefold-cover this BRUME album appears on a French label dedicated to "dystopian sound landscapes", it includes new material and re-workings of older tracks (i.e. from the legendary 'Permafrost' album) => masterful Grautag Records 12 BRUME - Mother Blast do-LP 2016 electro-acoustic industrial, dark and apocalyptic, this is the "ultimate cold war music", "a sort of €24,00 GTR#009 soundtrack that could perfectly fit the waiting of a nuclear bombing inside a subterranean bunker." [CHAIN D.L.K.] ; gatefold-cover, lim. 500 CHRISTOPHERSON, PETER - The Art of PETER CHRISTOPHERSONs performance for legendary film-maker DEREK JARMAN, live at the 2004 Infinite Fog edition of the Parisian 'L'Etrange Festival', now on CD!, "A master of samples, industrial wizard, 13 Mirrors. Live at L'Etrange Festival 2004 CD 2017 €16,00 Productions IF-68 renowned visual artist, Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson influenced all. Heavy, dark, and otherworldly, this (Homage to DEREK JARMAN) record is sure to bring you towards a trance-like state" length: 73 min. with "Labyrinth of the straight Line" CINDYTALK returns partly to the industrial beginnings from the 80's, the album is much more noisy, pulsative-rhythmic and demanding as before, but also has beautiful CINDYTALK - The Labyrinth of the Editions Mego eMego 14 CD 2016 dreamy tracks and merging field recordings, extremely surreal and ghostly... vocal extracts come from €14,00 straight Line 219 KEN McMULLENS film 'Ghost Dance' (1983), relating to JACQUES DERRIDA: "cinema plus psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts"; this is CINDYTALKs masterpiece on E. Mego!!! official yellow vinyl re-pressing of the original Prescription edition of this album, first issued in 1999; COIL - Astral Disaster (Prescription Acme / Prescription recorded 1998 at Sun Dial's studio (beneath the London Bridge), which was a debtors prison in Victorian 15 LP 2017 €26,00 Yellow Vinyl Edition) DRUGR8 times; taken from the original analogue masters, comes with original sleeve artwork and inlay, plus facsimile signatures of JOHN BALANCE and PETER CHRISTOPHERSON COIL - London Conway Hall, October re-issue of rare CDR from 2003: COIL performing "The Universe is a Haunted House" (also known as 16 LP East/West WEST926 2016 €25,00 12th, 2002 "Megalithomania""), lim./numb. 349 copies on purple/white splatter vinyl 2 after a long release break (4 years) Drone Rec. artists JOE COLLEY (aka CRAWL UNIT)